Pentland, Barbara Lally

Canadian composer (b. Jan. 2, 1912, Winnipeg, Man.—d. Feb. 5, 2000, Vancouver, B.C.), was one of Canada's first avant-garde composers. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and the Berkshire (Mass.) Music Center. Pentland taught composition and theory at the Toronto Conservatory of Music from 1943 to 1949 and at the University of British Columbia from 1949 to 1963. Her music was influenced by, among other modern composers, Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern. Among Pentland's notable compositions were Studies in Line (1941), Concerto for Violin and Small Orchestra (1942), Symphony for Ten Parts (1957), News (1970), and Disasters of the Sun (1976). She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989.

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